Danny Fontaine coaches teams and pitches multi-million-dollar deals to the biggest brands in the world. His unique approach blends creativity, psychology, storytelling and immersive experiences, based on years of research and application.
Danny also hosts the Pitch Masters podcast where he interviews the masters of the advertising, sales and marketing industries to find out how they win business.
He has taught photography, done voice-over work, been the lead singer in a band, earned a Fine Art degree, and done many other seemingly irrelevant things that fuel his creative work in surprising ways. Pitch is his first book. He lives in Colchester with his wife and three sons.
Tiago Forte is founder of Fortelabs.co and one of the world's foremost experts on productivity. He has taught thousands of people how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their lives. He has worked with organizations such as Toyota Motor Corporation and the Inter-American Development Bank, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Atlantic and Harvard Business Review.
Russell Foster is professor of Biology at Imperial College, London and the world's leading expert on chronobiology.
Alan Foster is a consultant at ghSMART. Alan studied economics at Cambridge University and earned his MBA from INSEAD in France.
Charles Foster is the author of the New York Times bestseller Being a Beast, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wainwright Prize, won the 30 Millions d'Amis prize in France, and is the subject of a forthcoming feature film. A fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, in 2016 he won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology.
Michel Foucault was a philosopher and historian of ideas. He was, and continues to be, one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.
Paul Fournel is a French writer, poet, publisher and cultural ambassador. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for short fiction for Les Athlètes dans leur tête. His Besoin de Vélo (translated into English as Need for the Bike and Vélo) is a classic cycling text, in which he describes himself as the Proust of the chute. Anquetil, Alone is translated by Nick Caistor.
Robert Fox has been a professional reporter, commentator, author and broadcaster for nearly 40 years. He has reported from the front in the Falklands (for which he was awarded an MBE), the Middle East, including Iraq and the Palestinian territories, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He is defence correspondent for the Evening Standardand senior associate fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London. He regularly comments for the BBC and Sky, and writes online for the Guardian and The First Post and in print for publications including theTLS and the Tablet.
Margalit Fox is a journalist, writing for the New York Times. Originally trained as a linguist, her previous book Talking Hands was about the remarkable 'signing village' of Al-Sayyid where only sign language is used. Previously an editor at The New York Times Book Review, Margalit has written numerous articles on language, culture and ideas for The Times, New York Newsday, Variety and other publications.
Louise Foxcroft has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. Her book Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A history of the modern menopause was winner of the Longman/History Today Prize, 2009. Calories & Corsets: A history of dieting over 2,000 years was shortlisted for a Food Writer's Guild Prize 2013. She has written for the Times, Independent, Observer, Guardian, andLondon Review of Books among others; has appeared on BBC, ITV, RTE and Al Jazeera English; and has contributed to BBC R4 programmes, including The Medicalisation of Normality, Am I Normal?, Woman's Hour, Open Country, You & Yours, Inside Science and The Long View. She is company secretary of Village Underground, a non-profit space for creativity and culture in the heart of East London, and a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. www.louisefoxcroft.com
Zoe Fraade-Blanar is a faculty member at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Studio 20 program at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is co-founder and Chief Design Officer of the crowdsourced toy company Squishable.
Dr. Nathan Fox is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He has a busy clinical practice of high-risk obstetrics, regularly publishes his peer-reviewed clinical research, and is invited to lecture nationally and internationally on pregnancy-related topics. He is also the host of the Healthful Woman Podcast. He has four children.
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and has sold over half a million copies. www.karenjoyfowler.com
